8 Mar
2024
8 Mar
'24
8 p.m.
Henry Bent <henry.r.bent(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 at 18:14, Tom Lyon
<pugs78(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think the first MIPS compiler was PCC based and then later it
was rewritten. I'm pretty sure the others were developed from
scratch, but undoubtedly others here know for sure.
Arnold
For no good reason, I've been wondering
about the early history of C
compilers that were not derived from Ritchie, Johnson, and Snyder at Bell.
Especially for x86. Anyone have tales?
Were any of those compilers ever used to port UNIX?
As a slightly separate addendum, I'm curious about the slightly later
history of compilers for commercial UNIX distributions. Were these derived
from the Bell/BSD sources or were they "clean room" approaches? I'm
thinking of SunPRO, IBM XL C, the MIPS compiler, DEC GEM, etc.
-Henry